Loading
Loading
Log In

Results

  • Thirteenth Century CE
Sort By:  1-10 of 309 (31 pages)
Results per page:
         

Curriculum

MJ Toswell

M. J. Toswell is Professor of English at the University of Western Ontario. A lifelong addict of governance, serving many roles both in the academic field and outside it, she currently serves on both Senate and the Board of Governors at Western. She publishes on Old English, manuscript codicology, and medievalism. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Today’s Medieval University

Arc Humanities Press, 2017

Book chapter

...Today a seventeen-year-old Danish student planning to study physics can decide to start her degree in Belgium at the University of Leuven in order to do some physics in French; in second year, she might check the rankings of the top...

An Account of Genghis Khan’s Son Chaghatai Khan’s Rule in Turan

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

Search for publications
and

Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

Book chapter

...Chaghatai Khan, Genghis Khan’s second son, was distinguished among his brothers for his awesomeness, political acumen, and knowledge of the Yasa and Törä. When Genghis Khan was dividing his kingdom he gave him Transoxiana, part of Khwarazm,...

A Summary of Genghis Khan’s Career

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

Search for publications
and

Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

Book chapter

...Genghis Khan’s father was Bartan Bahadur’s son Yesügäi Bahadur, and his mother was Öälün Äkä. He was born in Dülün Bolduq on the 20th of Dhu’l–Qa‘da 549 [January 26, 1155], the Year of the Pig. According to Mawlana Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi...

Inquisition and Holy Office

The Ages of Faith : Popular Religion in Late Medieval England and Western Europe

I.B.Tauris, 2009

Book chapter

...This chapter was first published in A. Hastings (ed.), The Oxford Companion to Christian Thought (Oxford 2000), p. 327. The article is reproduced here by permission of Oxford University Press.The Inquisition conjures up, for our modern...

The meta-philosophy of scholasticism

Stephen Boulter

Stephen Boulter is Senior Lecturer in Philosophy and Ethics, Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy (2007) and Metaphysics from a Biological Point of View (2013). Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Why Medieval Philosophy Matters

Bloomsbury Academic, 2019

Book chapter

...So who were the scholastics, and what were they up to? This chapter and the next answer these questions by focusing on their collective project and the methods used to prosecute it. A focus on project and method is enlightening because...

Genghis Khan’s Progeny Who Ruled in the Ulugh Yurt After his Death

Khwandamir

Khwandamir

Search for publications
and

Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume II: Habibu’s-Siyar: The History of the Mongols and Genghis Khan (Tome 3)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

Book chapter

...The khaqans who sat on the throne of the khanate in Genghis Khan’s ulugh yurt, which consisted of Kälürän and Qaraqorum and was known as Ordubaligh, numbered fifteen according to Mawlana Sharafuddin Ali Yazdi’s report in the introduction...

A Nadīm for the Sultan: Rāwandī and the Anatolian Seljuks

Sara Nur Yıldız

Sara Nur Yildiz is Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Orient-Institut, Istanbul. She holds a PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

The Seljuks of Anatolia : Court and Society in the Medieval Middle East

I.B. Tauris, 2013

Book chapter

...I dedicate this chapter to the memory of K. Allin Luther, whose course on Perso-Islamic civilisation at the University of Michigan inspired me to study the medieval Turco-Iranian world.‘As long as the world turns, may Khusraw be just...

The Senses in Literature: The Textures of Perception

Vincent Gillespie

Vincent Gillespie

Search for publications

A Cultural History of the Senses in the Middle Ages

Bloomsbury Academic, 2014

Book chapter

...Literature is a phenomenon of the senses before it is an experience of the intellect (Vinge 1975). All aesthetic experiences by Aristotelian definition appeal to and work through the senses. The philosophical aphorism nihil est...

Slips, Strips, and Scraps: Scholarly Notes

Erik Kwakkel

Erik Kwakkel is book historian and professor at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Books Before Print

Arc Humanities Press, 2018

Book chapter

...Manuscript made from offcuts, showing uneven edge of page and discolouration, ca. 1000-1025. Leiden, UB, VLO 92, fol. 124r. With permission.While the medieval examples of ephemeral artifacts discussed in Chapter 22 involved paper, other...

The Turkic Tribes that have also had Separate Monarchs and Leaders but do not have a Close Relationship to the Tribes Mentioned in the Previous Division or to the Mongols yet are Close to them in Physiognomy and Language

Rashiduddin Fazlullah

Rashiduddin Fazlullah was grand vizier to the Mongol rulers of Iran. He was commissioned by the monarch Gazan Khan (1295-1304) to compile a history of all the peoples of the world. He set up a charitable foundation outside Tabriz, which included a hospital, pharmacy, a theological school, a school for orphans, a scriptorium and a library. He was put to death in 1318. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications
and

Wheeler M. Thackston

Wheeler M. Thackston is an orientalist and a distinguished translator and editor of Persian and Arabic historical and literary works. Author of a number of noted Persian and Arabic grammars, he is Emeritus Professor, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilzations, Harvard University. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

Search for publications

Classical Writings of the Medieval Islamic World : Persian Histories of the Mongol Dynasties, Volume III: Jami‘u’ t-Tawarikh: Compendium of Chronicles (Tome 1)

I.B.Tauris, 2012

Book chapter

...Each of these nations has had a monarch or leader, their yurt s and dwelling places were delineated, and each has branched off into various subdivisions. These nations are held in high esteem at this time by the other...